Copyright © 2010, by Mitchell H. Allen


Photo by dbking

Lucid dream, new insight.
Head explodes once a night.
Dawn erupts, sense takes flight -
Canvas fills left from right.

Awakened now, neurons fire:
Anapestic abattoir!
Androgogic application
Investigating inspiration!

Perceptions loom, woven sure.
Athena shouts! Thoughts so pure.
Yon canvas bleeds, quite demure.
Hypnos commands: sleep once more.

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A late birthday present for Dr. Andrei Sakharov (May 21, 1921 – December 14, 1989)
The photographer included a nice bio on Flickr.com

So, what was my exploding head idea? Well, I’ll let someone else tell it better, but basically, I feel that we put artificial restraints on poorly understood mental activity. If the brain is supposed to be such a wonderful organ, why do we disregard so much of its output? Read more about latent savant skills.